Abhisit: at what price?

[farang2x]

your propaganda a repeat of all T's gar-baj

[Minnie]

go and pay your taxes farang2 cause your leader is selling Thailand to the chinese and he needs to pay them and the military generals and its not going to come from his pocket but YOURS....

[pachangamac042]

Minnie, you are right with your comments regarding tourism. I know villager and the yellow clappers do not agree with you, but still, you are right. Having been in the tourism business for many years, I still got many friends in the business confirming your lines.

Of course do the yellows and villager blame it on the economic crisis but that is just bullsh*t. The airport closings were the main reason in the drop of tourism in Thailand. People have been travelling the same, just not coming to Thailand. I said it before, and repeat myself again here. Most cancellations for highseason have been done after the Suvarnabhumi closing. For the thick heads amongst us, tourists would have come to Thailand for high season, but they decided to go to other places instead, thanks to the airport party.

[Yellow_Shirt]

Minnie, you are right with your comments regarding tourism. I know villager and the yellow clappers do not agree with you, but still, you are right. Having been in the tourism business for many years, I still got many friends in the business confirming your lines.

Of course do the yellows and villager blame it on the economic crisis but that is just bullsh*t. The airport closings were the main reason in the drop of tourism in Thailand. People have been travelling the same, just not coming to Thailand. I said it before, and repeat myself again here. Most cancellations for highseason have been done after the Suvarnabhumi closing. For the thick heads amongst us, tourists would have come to Thailand for high season, but they decided to go to other places instead, thanks to the airport party.

Villager and myself and everyone talking crap

Pachangamac42 and minnie

Here is your world economic crisis of 2008 on tormism

I have a think about what you say first.

Latest trends

As a result of the economic crisis of 2008, international arrivals suffered a strong slowdown beginning in June 2008. Growth from 2007 to 2008 was only 3.7% during the first eight months of 2008. The Asian and Pacific markets were affected and Europe stagnated during the boreal summer months, while the Americas performed better, reducing their expansion rate but keeping a 6% growth from January to August 2008. Only the Middle East continued its rapid growth during the same period, reaching a 17% growth as compared to the same period in 2007.[5] This slowdown on international tourism demand was also reflected in the air transport industry, with a negative growth in September 2008 and a 3.3% growth in passenger traffic through September. The hotel industry also reports a slowdown, as room occupancy continues to decline.[5] As the global economic situation deteriorated dramatically during September and October as a result of the global financial crisis, growth of international tourism is expected to slow even further for the remaining of 2008, and this slowdown in demand growth is forecasted to continue into 2009 as recession has already hit most of the top spender countries, with long-haul travel expected to be the most affected by the economic crisis.

Thousands of Britons are dropping traditional holidays to Spain because of the weakness of the pound and fears over the after-effects of the banking crisis.
The severe fall-off in bookings is alarming tourist authorities and businesses.
Figures from the Spanish tourist industry reveal that the number of Britons who visited Spain in November, for example, was down by 15% on 2007.
The fall has closely tracked the decreasing value of the pound. Britons began to turn their backs on Spain in September, when numbers were down 5%, reaching 7% in October. Last month's dramatic decline came after the pound had lost 25% of its value against the euro in a year.
With the pound and the euro now apparently heading for parity, tourist authorities fear that worse will come – with the all-important summer season now looking grim.
"We are seeing principal markets fall away," explained Marien André, of the Catalan government's Tourism Observatory. "Everything has become very volatile."
That is causing alarm in a country which relies on a steady flow of Britons to keep its tourism sector buoyant.
Some 17 million British tourists land at Spanish airports or drive across the border every year, according to the Foreign Office, accounting for almost one in three tourists who visit Spain, which earns 11% of GDP from tourism.
The Canary Islands, where the mild winters attract many of end-of-year British tourists, have seen the number arriving this winter fall by 15%, while the Costa del Sol area around Malaga suffered even worse, with visitors down by 17%.
Spanish hotels have dropped their prices by 2% this year, but this has not been enough to hang on to British tourists - many of whom now prefer to rent houses and apartments online or off friends and relatives.
While British people are abandoning their Spanish holidays, however, Spaniards are beginning to fill the budget airline seats that they are leaving empty.
The weakness of the pound has made England suddenly seem cheap to Spaniards who previously found Britain's most popular tourist spots too expensive.
With the euro also stretching much further in British shops, Spaniards who last year travelled to New York to hunt for bargains in the post-Christmas sales have been booking into London hotels.
Spanish internet hotel booking sites report increases of up to 70% in London bookings for immediately after Christmas. Bookings for flights plus hotels were up 80%, according to one portal.
One route, from the northern city of La Coruña, to London is carrying double the number of passengers this year compared with 2007.
"The attraction of London is very strong,'' said one travel agent. "It is not that far away and its currency is weak."
Newspaper travel supplements in recent weeks have been full of the bargain prices in London, with iPods now 25% cheaper there than in Spain. Even a pint of beer is now deemed reasonable at €3.60 (£3.40), against nearly €5 a year ago.
Barcelona's La Vanguardia newspaper filled three pages on Monday to explain to its readers the advantages of travelling to London in the coming months.
"No one doubts that this year London will be the favoured destination for those who, despite the economic crisis, still want to keep travelling," the paper said.
Not all Spaniards, however, were mourning the disappearance of the British tourist. "They only ever spend their money on alcohol and then they have to be carted off to hospital after they get drunk and pass out,'' said a comment posted on La Vanguardia's website. "Perhaps we can start bringing in quality tourism now."

[villager]

Hi Yellow Shirt , have you noticed that with all there slagging off of Abhisit and the Dems , the never come up with a party and a PM who in their opinion could do a better job?, the reason being is that they have no opinion , only hatred and bias, i mean the last PMs were real beauty,s were they not THE CLONE AND LIONHEART, Somchai could,t even get his wife to make him a cup of coffee never mind run a government,LOLOLOLOL.

[pachangamac042]

La Vanguardia is a fascist news paper full of bullsh*t, very much yellow same you.

[Yellow_Shirt]

La Vanguardia is a fascist news paper full of bullsh*t, very much yellow same you.

If you read my post the only part at the bottom is from Barcelona's La Vanguardia newspaper filled three pages on Monday to explain to its readers the advantages of travelling to London in the coming months.
the rest of the post is not from this paper so don't worrie about your fascist news paper the rest is facts on the world crisis 2008.

[GaryLess]

Hi Yellow Shirt , have you noticed that with all there slagging off of Abhisit and the Dems , the never come up with a party and a PM who in their opinion could do a better job?, the reason being is that they have no opinion , only hatred and bias, i mean the last PMs were real beauty,s were they not THE CLONE AND LIONHEART, Somchai could,t even get his wife to make him a cup of coffee never mind run a government,LOLOLOLOL.

According to the courts decision it is illegal for a PM to cook. It is also illegal to acknowledge the spouses business. Probably the wife could not take any chances, making coffee is awfully close to cooking, and she is the spouse...

Abhisit should be safe though, he is not from PPP.

On a more serious note:
Arrange fair elections and let the winner win. It might surprise you, but this actually works in other countries, even some who did not have 60 years of (halfhearted) democracy.

[Yellow_Shirt]

Hi Yellow Shirt , have you noticed that with all there slagging off of Abhisit and the Dems , the never come up with a party and a PM who in their opinion could do a better job?, the reason being is that they have no opinion , only hatred and bias, i mean the last PMs were real beauty,s were they not THE CLONE AND LIONHEART, Somchai could,t even get his wife to make him a cup of coffee never mind run a government,LOLOLOLOL.

According to the courts decision it is illegal for a PM to cook. It is also illegal to acknowledge the spouses business. Probably the wife could not take any chances, making coffee is awfully close to cooking, and she is the spouse...

Abhisit should be safe though, he is not from PPP.

On a more serious note:
Arrange fair elections and let the winner win. It might surprise you, but this actually works in other countries, even some who did not have 60 years of (halfhearted) democracy.

Hello Garyless

I don't have to see any more election the By-election gave you an insight to what Thai people are thinking. that would be shock it was a major victory for the democrats in the By-election that must give you some idea.

[stilljustbrowsing]

Pehaps the victory for the "dems" was as a result of appathy by opposition sympathisers, believing (rightly or wrongly) that their votes would be over-ruled anyway? (stilljustobserving)